Week 1 Wrap-Up

Welcome to the week 1 wrap-up, which saw several close matches and a near upset of the champs. Let’s dive right in!

Wahoos 9-Evil Empire 3

This one started out the same way it finished up, with the Wahoos jumping to an early lead. Mid-week the Empire’s bats came to life and drew it to 6-6, before Cleveland pulled away. Jay Bruce and Matt Holiday didn’t help by not showing up for most of the week. One thing that never really wavered was the dominance of the Wahoos pitching staff.  

MVP Johnny Cueto: 1.93 ERA 14IP 10.9 K/(

DL All Stars 7 - Fightin’ Visquels 5

In what was the game of the week, the new guy managed to nearly upset the reigning champ. Neither team had a great week for OBP, offset by lots of power for both. The DL-All stars won through scoring a massive total of runs and surviving blow-ups by several of his starters to take Quality Starts and WHIP.

 MVP Chris Sale 15 IP 1.76 ERA 2QS .72 Whip

Mike Ehrman-Trout 7 - Deathvalley Demons 5

Another close one, this game came down to the last at-bat. Neither team could hit for beans, frankly, with OBPs in the neighborhood of 310 and MET only putting together a .333 SLG. 11 HR for the Demons helped them out a lot, but strong pitching won the day for MET.

MVP Evan Longoria .467 OBP, .560 SLG, 5R (though this was definitely a team effort by MET)

Royal Rooters 10 - Yakety Sax 2

This game was pretty one-sided all the way through, unfortunately. RR showed some good speed but struggled in the other categories. BJ Upton continues his excellent hitting pace from last year (.083 OBP And Slg) and even Edwin Encarnacion didn’t have a particularly good week, leading to his benching. Mark Trumbo, by contrast, is going to get a restraining order from opposing pitchers if he keeps crushing it the way he did this week. RR will hope to bounce back next week.

 MVP Mark Trumbo 5HR, 7R, 13 RBI

Bowling Overhand 5 - Team No Idea 7

This was pretty obviously a tale of teams that were focused on winning different categories. NI took most of the hitting categories while Bowl took most of the pitching. Neither team had a great week, really, and several categories ended up very close (.3145 v .3287 OBP, 9.353 v 9.262 K/9.) I imagine both teams will want another crack at each other when they face off again Week 9.

MVP Torii Hunter .444 OBP 1.00 SLG, 3 homers and 7 RBIs

Trophies:

Gehrig Award-Jimmy Rollins-No Idea

El Sombrero de Oro-Billy Hamilton-MET

Sandman-Craig Kimbrel-No Idea, Francisco Rodriguez-Bowl

Dirty Fuentes-Sergio Santos-Evil

Week 1 Standings:

AL

1^st Yakety Sax

2^nd DL All Stars

3^rd Fightin’ Visquels

4^th Evil Empire

5^th Royal Rooters

NL

1^st Cleveland Wahoos

2^nd Team No Idea

3^rd Mike Ehrman-Trout

4^th Deathvalley Demons

5^th Bowling Overhand

League Manager's Poll

Poll of the Week #0: How do you feel about your team?
Now that the draft is complete, how happy are you with your team? 

Top of Form

 29%
Pencil me in for the playoffs (2 votes)

 71%
Fairly pleased, but I'll have some work to do* (5 votes)

0%
There's always next year (0 votes)

Total Votes: 7  (One per Owner)